kycode is a construct from the wbook name so I could add the apostrophe
though it is ironic that prior to this I have spent a lot of effort deleting
unwanted characters from the imported data I am processing <g

But it does work and it's woth going for. Thanks for that. I'm still
curious though as to why the string requires it.

Geoff

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Instead of:
kycode="01"
use:
kycode="'01"
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